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Weis adds Vestal to KU coaching staff

Matsakis, Onyegbule, Greenwood hired to support roles

Charlie Weis

Kansas coach Charlie Weis has promoted Scott Vestal to fill the vacancy created when DeMontie Cross left for TCU.

Vestal, who served as KU's assistant director of operations last year, will have the title of assistant defensive backs coach and will work with special teams. He previously was a quality control assistant at Florida when Weis was the Gators' offensive coordinator.

Weis also announced that defensive coordinator Dave Campo will have the title of assistant head coach for defense while continuing to coach KU's defensive backs. Clint Bowen, who coached defensive backs last season, was shifted to linebackers coach to replace Cross.

Weis also announced a series of changes to his support staff, including three additions.

■ Louie Matsakis will return to KU as director of personnel after spending the past four seasons at Youngstown State. Matsakis was an assistant at KU under Mark Mangino and coached running backs from 2007-09.

■ Max Onyegbule, a former Jayhawk defensive end who graduated in 2010, will serve as a defensive graduate assistant.

■ Ty Greenwood was named a control coach for defense after spending the past six years at Pierce (Calif.) College, where he coached linebacker Marcus Jenkins-Moore and defensive tackle Marquel Combs, two of the highest-rated recruits in KU's 2013 class.

■ Rod Jones, a defensive graduate assistant last year, will serve as director of high school relations.

■ Maurice Crum, Jr., also a defensive GA, was promoted to assistant director of operations.

■ Matt Shula moved from a quality control position to a graduate-assistant role working with special teams.

■ Mark Ross, an intern last season, will move into a quality control role with KU's offense.